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This is awesome Elaine - well done to you and your team of animators.

Is Tuna Ranching Illegal? Someone please answer!

That is terribble - it makes me mad.
Can we do anything about it?
Is it too late?
That was NEVER a foul !




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Original and nicely done!

Well done indeed!

Elaine,

enjoy today and get some extra patience for the football thing! Say hello to everbody!

Marta

Impressive. Didn't know !

Re: Is Tuna Ranching Illegal?

Well, the answer is no. Tuna ranching is a legal activity if it meets certain requirements, at this stage mainly that tuna farms have to communicate their production to a regulatory body, in this case ICCAT (some national laws also apply, in general not different to other regulations that apply to general aquaculture).

This is clearly not enough and does not prevent the fact that thousands of tons of bluefin tuna are caught every year without being reported to fill these farms.

Many industrial activities that are clearly unsustainable and destroy the environment are as a matter of fact legal, but that doesn't change the fact that we do have the responsibility to oppose them, or push for them to be strictly regulated when needed.

In the post "Why is tuna ranching so bad?" we give some reasons that explain why this activity is clearly unsustainable, particularly at the scale it's practised today.

You are all brilliant genius and you remind me that it is possible; we can bring about change in a creative way. Well done team.

fantastic. Yes, definite hats off for the audio - but everything else as well. But who got sent off?!

nice work team, although of course it will be Australia in the final (I know that you told us not to go there but hey....). Good message, well presented. Hope that you can get it out there far and wide.
steve

Excellent movie!!! I hope the world can see this.

Refreshingly brilliant! Love it ...

Hi, so what was wrong with my comment yesterday?? I was been supportive with abit of humor and i'm really curious why it's been rejected - there's no point wasting time if you have some kind of rule i'm breaking.
Same goes with my other comment on the fluffy toys ..

Hi PN - sorry, you're comment got stuck in the junk filter - i had to sort through a thousand comments about viagra and ringtones (i don't think either are going to make a difference to the deep-sea destruction do you?) to find yours...

I think the junk mail filter might not like your name! I'll go and fiddle with the settings - thank you for your comments :)

you saw the replay - of course it was a foul ;)

Elaine, this really shows a lot of creativity. The video with the animations shows what it needs to show.

Gosh, the mystery player sure looks like David Beckham. Even in playdoh, that chin is hard to mistake. But... but it can't be. Where Beckham's left arm is visible fending off the giant net one ought to be able to see the beginning of his tattoo which spells out "Victoria" in sanskrit.

Well, actually, it says Vihctoria, because he">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1044797.stm">he misspelt it.

So Elaine, if it's supposed to be Old Benditlike, I'm afraid you'll have to reshoot...

Hey Lainey poo,

Goooooaaaaaaaallllllll! Very effective animation and really drives the point home. You rock you sexy ocean defender you!

Love LeighXXX

There are some questions left unanswered. Did Beckham cry like a little girl when he got knocked and is is it possbile to download this great moive to show to kids in our schools outreach programme?

Hi Tom,

Of course Beckham cried like a girl - even I know that and I know nothing about football!

you can download an mp4 version here

http://oceans.greenpeace.org/assets/binaries/subbuteo-podcast.mp4